From: Mike Leone (no email)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 15:29:05 EST
Marcio Merlone () had this to say on 11/25/02 at 09:58:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:43:45 -0500 (EST)
> <> wrote:
>
> > > nov 25 14:57:20 mail amavis[21164]: Unzipping msg-21164-2.zip
> > > nov 25 14:57:21 mail amavis[21164]: Maximum number of files (500)
> > > exceeded - requeue
> > > nov 25 14:57:21 mail amavis[21164]: do_exit:922 - ending execution
> > > with 75
> >
> > This is really lame. Amavis should not return EX_TEMPFAIL for a
> > condition that is not going to change! If it does not like the content
> > it should reject it or modify it. Telling the MTA to retry is not the
> > right answer.
> >
> > The choices are:
> >
> > - Reject the message
> > - Quarantine the message
> > - Delete the zip and deliver the message
> > - Deliver the unscanned zip with a warning in the message
> > - Log a warning and deliver an unmodified message
> > - Silenty deliver the unscanned unmodified message.
> >
> > Temporary failure is not among them. The same applies to all other
> > conditions that are based on the content alone rather than transient
> > lack of system resources to process the content.
>
> Sorry, I disagree. This case is obviously a virus, but suppose we dont
Why obviously? The message was too many files unzipped. Why do you think
that makes it a virus?
I agree that it's a config issue.
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